Blogger Tim Challies as an excellent five-part series called “Sexual Detox.” As the name implies, his concern is to detoxify sex (and marriage) from the poisonous effects of pornography usage. Each post is brief but packed. I highly recommend them, especially to men.
Sexual Detox I: Pornifying the Marriage Bed
Sexual Detox II: Breaking Free
Sexual Detox III: A Theology of Sex
Sexual Detox IV: Detoxification
(Posted 10/30/09)
Here’s a quotation from from chapter 7, “Resist Spirituality,” of Paul Tripp’s book Broken-Down House :
We are comfortable with a little bit of holiness, a little bit of ministry, a little bit of sacrifice, a little bit of wisdom, a little bit of the satisfying glory that only the grace of Christ is able to give us. I am deeply persuaded that we must resist with all of our might the kind of self-satisfied spirituality that marks the life of so many believers. And I am further persuaded that this pseudo-spirituality is one of the cruel deceptions of a wily enemy.
As the chapter explains, it really comes down to this: Do you love Christ or the world? Many professing Christians actually love the world, not Christ, and their faith proves not to be real.
But those same tendencies–to settle for a little bit–are present even in genuine believers. We fight hard against those tendencies.
Is Christ your life or merely an add-on?
(posted 10/22/09)